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No one uses Flexbox in production. You're better off learning real CSS if you're just getting started with web development.

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> You're better off learning real CSS

Flexbox is real CSS, it's part of the CSS3 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-css-flexbox-1-20150514/

We develop a webapp that targets the music industry, and none of them is using old IEs. We have been using flexbox in production for more than one year :)

However, this webapp is used to generate websites that may be visited by anybody, really, so we have to support IE9 and we don't use flex box for them. It all depends on your customers / visitors base.

I work at WalMart.com - we have shipped flexbox in production for years now

We're using Flexbox in production for our next release. We only need to support IE10+, but with autoprefixer it's dead simple.

I've run into plenty of shops that use flexbox in production. This is just false.

What is the reason for that? Is something wrong with Flexbox? Or just browser adoption?

Flexbox is not supported by IE < 10. And IE10 supports an old syntax but that can be mitigated by using the "autoprefixer" tool.

I'm not sure anyone really expects websites to look good in internet explorer anymore. As long as it's mostly functional, it's fine.

I think internet explorer users would disagree with you.

Not really, I just surprise WebGL in IE11 is so much performer than in Chrome and Firefox.

I think internet explorer users should use it for what it is made for… downloading a real web browser

But they can't, because the website doesn't work on IE.

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